They plan to test the weapon on replica warships to assess how effective the rams were during naval battles. “This research can help us understand the evolution of major warships, from the ...

USS President Jackson under attack during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In the center background, smoke rises after an Japanese plane crashed into the superstructure of USS San Francisco.

From these massed forces, the composer draws misty anticipations before clangorous battles ... of the Colosseum: the organ. Scott fills the Colosseum with water for a thrilling naval clash ...

The emperors want to kill him off, so they devise a naval battle in the Colosseum. The scene itself is colorful, with the boats all different colors and the senators in their togas watching from ...

Yet as you have likely heard by now, the Romans really did stage miniature naval battles for the citizenry’s amusement and distraction—including probably inside the Colosseum (though some ...

Airbnb has defended its partnership with the Roman Colosseum to revive gladiator "battles" to promote the film Gladiator II, after being criticised for trivialising the historic site. In a ...

The naval battle is a cruel form of entertainment that fills the Colosseum floor with water and tiger sharks while re-enacting a naval warfare with fighters from two boats fighting each other to ...

When the Colosseum was opened by Emperor Titus in 80 AD, it was inaugurated with ceremonies lasting 100 days, which included two staged naval battles known as naumachiae. A naval battle taking ...

When Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 arrives in cinemas this week, some viewers may assume that the spectacular scenes of the Colosseum in Rome being flooded in order to host naval battles are merely ...